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CUPID'S HOLIDAY, by                    
First Line: Let her that is of love afraid
Last Line: But be glad of it forever!
Subject(s): Cupid; Eros


Let her that is of love afraid
Venture not into the shade
Of this dusk wood, the tangles dark
And secret glades of Cupid's Park;
Turn her timid steps away,
Nor disturb the laughing play
Of those that keep love's holiday.

Only she may enter here
Whose happy fancy laughs at fear,
Only she whose generous flame
Burns away the thought of shame:
But welcome to this trysting place
That lovely girl whose laughing face
Can lend delight its own sweet grace.

Here let her number joys until
Arithmetic's amazed, and fill
Her lap with pleasures as with flowers,
Kissing out the golden hours,
Till the hours are kissed to sleep,
And the stars her secrets keep
In a golden slumber deep.

Waking, she shall wake to gladness,
Never any pang of sadness
Or regret shall bitter-mingle
With the morning joys that tingle
At her dewy lips -- O never
Shall she rue her sweet endeavor,
But be glad of it forever!





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